Friends of Chef (formerly Opscode) and Mitch Hill are invited to help build a hybrid cloud at Cal Poly Pomona. The Mitchell C. Hill Memorial Endowment will provide funding to build a hybrid cloud datacenter of which 1/3 will benefit current student coursework, 1/3rd to ongoing research, and 1/3rd to K-12 students. More information on the Cal Poly Pomona site is here: http://www.cpp.edu/~cba/mitch-hill-endowment/
Although Mitch passed away far too soon, his leadership and legacy will live on with the Mitchell C. Hill Memorial Endowment, which will fund the Mitchell C. Hill Center for Advanced Business Information Technology. The endowment will also support student scholarships and education in the fields enterprise mobility, cloud-based infrastructure, managed services and virtualization. The Computer Information Systems Department endeavors to raise $2.5 million, ensuring the spirit of Mitch’s work continues to thrive and live on through generations of future business leaders.
To start, we’d like to build scripts that can generate a lab environment for students, using Chef and hosted on Azure to support the following coursework use cases:
CIS311 Course: Web Dev, Visual Studio, .net – spin up 40 dev environments for the course and send credentials to the students.
Database Course: SQL Server VM, spin up 40 dev environments and send credentials to the students.
Forensics Course: spin up local VM’s that have infections/malware so students can do analysis on infected/compromised VM’s (locally hosted)
We have hardware donations from Juniper and server donations from Edison. If this is a project you’d like to contribute to (any and all contributions of time or ideas are welcome), please get in touch with me!
Thanks — Jdevita AT microsoft DOT com